James C. Whorton The Arsenic Century: How Victorian Britain was Poisoned at Home, Work, and Play 2010 464 pp http://libgen.org/covers/557000/2937ab36df75b3780e5457f05d343878-d.jpg
1874 -invention of DDT as a 'nerve agent' bioweapon
1948 Paul Muller is awarded a Nobel Prize in medicine for discovering the insect-killing properties of DDT.
April 1953, leading DDT consultant, Dr Kumm, became Director of Polio Research for NFIP
After 1972, the use of DDT was no longer permitted in the United States except in cases of a public health emergency
1 Aug 1988 all insecticidal uses of PbHAsO4 in the USA were officially banned.
In 1983, via new legislation, DDT was allowed back into the U.S. marketplace, but only in pesticide blends. Within only a few months of this re-entry, a new kind of polio epidemic suddenly occurred. It was labelled "post-polio", the re-emergence of polio symptoms in former victims. This has involved approximately 600,000 victims." Acute Flaccid Paralysis
Bert, Hansen Picturing Medical Progress from Pasteur to Polio: A History of Mass Media Images and Popular Attitudes in America 2009 352
Pead P.J.: Vaccination Rediscovered. New Light in the Dawn of Man's Quest for Immunity. 2006 Timefile Books Chichester, England
Kilbourne E.D.: A history of influenza virology. Koprowski H. Oldstone M.B.A. Microbe Hunters: Then and Now. 1996 Medi-Ed Press Bloomington, IL 187-204
Hale, Annie Riley. The Medical Voodoo. New York: Gotham House, 1936.
Then remember that in 1926 Johannes Andreas Grib Fibiger got the Nobel prize for proving worms caused cancer (very similar to this situation, he found a correlation between worm irritation of wounds and posterior cancer- now widely thought to ocurr because of cell damage)